Brian Joyce, host of WGOW-FM’s “Live & Local” show, has traveled the globe to find his calling in life.Thanks to a lifetime of chronic restlessness, Brian Joyce’s resume reads like a skipping stone’s travelogue.
In April, Joyce, 35, took over as host of the early afternoon program at WGOW-FM 102.3. Long before that, however, he pursued a slew of interests that took him from North Carolina baseball diamonds and Boston comedy clubs to an investment banking firm in Dublin and a 40-acre farm near Prague.
Three years ago, after abandoning trial runs of truck driving, modeling and numerous other micro-career paths, the native Bay Stater discovered a love of radio. The journey to sitting behind the mike was a long one, but Joyce said he feels like he’s finally found his calling.
“I’ve never in my life wanted to be ‘Brian Joyce the Attorney,’ ‘Brian Joyce the Surgeon’ or ‘Brian Joyce the Cancer Researcher,’ ” he said. “I just wanted to be me.
“When I found [radio], it was like, ‘This is what Brian Joyce was supposed to be. This is what I was trying to be all along.’ “